Social Science Japan Journal

General Articles:

Peter Hill

Heisei Yakuza: Burst Bubble and Btaih
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 1-18; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.1 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David T. Johnson

Above the Law? Police Integrity in Japan
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 19-37; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.19 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Philippa Webb

Legislating for Care: A Comparative Analysis of Long-term Care Insurance Laws in Japan and Germany
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 39-56; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.39 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eldad Nakar

Memories of Pilots and Planes: World War II in Japanese Manga, 1957–1967
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 57-76; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.57 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul D. Barclay

‘Gaining Confidence and Friendship’ in Aborigine Country: Diplomacy, Drinking, and Debauchery on Japan's Southern Frontier
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 77-96; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.77 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Essays:

Karen A. Shire

Recent German Research on Japanese Labor and Economic Institutions
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 97-104; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.97 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Weathers

Work-sharing: Serious Initiative, or Japan's Latest Economic Panacea?
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 105-111; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.105 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Ross Mouer

Fubyd Shakai Nihon—Sayonara Schry (The Inegalitarian Society, Japan: Farewell to the Mass Middle Class), by Sat Toshiki. Tokyo: Ch Kron-sha, 2000, 208 pp., 660 yen (paperback ISBN 4-12-101537-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 113-118; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.113 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Aspinall

Kaiska Nihon to Kyiku Kiki: Fubyd Seisan kara Iyoku Kakusa (Insentibu Dibaido), Shakai e (Education in Crisis and Stratified Japan: From the Reproduction of Inequality to an ‘Incentive Divide’ Society), by Kariya Takehiko. Tokyo: Yushind, 2001, 3,800 yen (hardcover, ISBN 4-8420-8525-8)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 118-121; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.118 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Derek A. Hall

Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest, by Jeffrey Broadbent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, xviii + 418 pp., £42.50/$70.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-521-56424-7), £15.95/$26.00 (paperback ISBN 0-521-66574-4). The Political Economy of the Environment: The Case of Japan, by Shigeto Tsuru. London: Athlone Press, 1999, viii + 280 pp., £47.50 (ISBN 0-485-11528-X)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 121-124; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.121 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shirai Sayuri

Banking on Stability: Japan and the Cross-Pacific Dynamics of International Financial Management, by Saori N. Katada. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2001, 296 pp., $49.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-472-11211-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 124-126; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.124 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anja Osiander

Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan, by Wesley Sasaki-Uemura. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001, xiv + 293 pp., $56.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-8248-2311-7), $27.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8248-2439-3)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 127-130; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.127 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harumi Befu

Negotiating Identity in Contemporary Japan: the Case of Kikokushijo, by Ching Lin Pang. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 2000, 337 pp., $127.50 (hardcover ISBN 0-7103-0651-2)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 130-132; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.130 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Apichai Shipper

Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan, by Hiroshi Komai. Trans. Jens Wilkinson. Melbourne: Pacific Press, 2001, xiv + 230 pp., $29.95 (paperback ISBN 1-876843-06-3)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 132-135; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.132 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John McCreery

The Changing Face of Japanese Retail: Working in a Chain Store, by Louella Matsunaga. London: Routledge, 2001, xiv + 209 pp., £55.00/$90.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-415-22975-8)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 136-139; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.136 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Murakami Kokyo

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan, by Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, xxvi + 266 pp., $45.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-804-73561-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 139-142; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.139 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Sean Curtin

Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood, 1925–1988: Hanayama, by John Mock. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, 1999, xiii + 232pp., $89.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-7734-7974-0)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 143-146; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.143 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gordon Mathews

Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, by E. Taylor Atkins. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2001, xiv + 366 pp., $64.95 (hardcover ISBN 0-8223-2710-4), $21.95 (paperback ISBN 0-8223-2721-X)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 146-148; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.146 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christina L. Ahmadjian

Gendai Nippon no Kporto Gabanansu (Corporate Governance in Contemporary Japan), edited by Inagami Takeshi. Tokyo: Ty Keizai Shinpsha, 2000, 356 pp., 3,500 yen (hardcover ISBN 4-49-253085-1)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 149-152; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.149 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kaneko Yoshiki

The Postwar Rapprochement of Malaya and Japan, 1945–61: The Roles of Britain and Japan in South-East Asia, by Junko Tomaru. London: Macmillan, 2000, xiv + 317 pp., $65.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-333-74658-9)
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 152-155; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.152 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerhard Krebs

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919, by Frederick R. Dickinson. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 1999, xviii + 363 pp., $40.00 (hardcover ISBN 0-674-94655-3), $20.95 (paperback ISBN 0-674-00507-4, published 2001).
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 156-158; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.156 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum:

Erratum
Social Science Japan Journal 2003 6: 159; doi:10.1093/ssjj/6.1.159 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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